From: imurdock@shell.portal.com (Ian A Murdock) Subject: Re: Bad SLS 1.03! Bad! Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1993 22:06:54 GMT
Darcy Boese (dboese@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA) wrote:
: 1) Lilo doesn't seem to attach itself to the hard drive boot sector. Which
: means I don't get the LILO prompt or anything, it just tells me that I
: don't have a valid disk. Booting off the floppy it created works pretty
: much though.
: I went to the /etc/lilo, edited the config for a timeout of zero (Linux
: takes up the whole disk, why wait?) and ran lilo. But it still didn't
: attach itself to the disk. What gives? Should I go back to an older
: version of lilo? Or is the new one's install different?
I had this problem, too. Just edit /etc/lilo/config and change the first
line from:
boot = /dev/<partition>
to:
boot = /dev/<drive>
As an example, here's what I had to change
was: boot = /dev/hda4
changed to: boot = /dev/hda
I suppose that this line was generated by the automated LILO install, but it
doesn't seem to work.
Oh yeah, don't forget to re-run /etc/lilo/install.
: 2) I've also been experiencing the lock-up bug. After a few minutes or so I
: get no more response from the keyboard. I don't know if the whole machine
: is locked up or if it just loses track of the keyboard or what.
Haven't had any problems with lockup at all.
: 3) None of the network stuff seems to work at all, even after that auto-config
: from the installation.
I've had no problems with networking either (though I'm just using loopback).
Try tweaking with the config files yourself; installation scripts can't do
everything.
I noticed that /conf/net is missing, though there are links to it in /etc. I
had patchlevel 10 and net-2 installed on my SLS 1.02 system before upgrading
to SLS 1.03 and things looked alot different. I suppose that's just the way
Peter likes things set up, though I like things being in /conf/net. But since
everything seems to be working ok I won't complain too loudly :)
Peter, if you're reading this the new installation procedure is GREAT! I've
seen alot of people complaining about problems with your new release, but I
thus far have had none. Just thought you might appreciate a success story
for a change rather than the usual complaints. ;)